Chan may refer to:

Places

Chan (commune) Pouy () is a commune in Ou Chum District in north-east Cambodia. It contains Chan, Kan Saeung, Kreh, Ta Ngach, Svay, Khmaeng, Krala, Kang Kuy villages and has a population of 1,696.Chan Lake Territorial Park in Northwest Territories, Canada

People

* Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach *

Chan Gailey Thomas Chandler Gailey Jr. (born January 5, 1952) is a former American football coach. Most recently in 2020, he was the offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Gailey has previously served as the hea ...

(born 1952), American football coach * Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman * Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist *

Chan Romero Robert Lee "Chan" Romero (July 7, 1941 – April 21, 2024) was an American rock and roll performer, best known for his 1959 song " Hippy Hippy Shake". Early life Romero was born in Billings, Montana. His father was of Spanish and Apache de ...

(1941–2024), American rock and roll performer *

Chan Santokhi Chandrikapersad "Chan" Santokhi (; , ; born 3 February 1959) is a Surinamese politician and former police officer who is the 9th president of Suriname, since 2020. After winning the 2020 elections, Santokhi was the sole nominee for president o ...

(born 1959), Surinamese politician * Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai *

Bang Chan Christopher Chahn Bahng (born 3 October 1997), known professionally as Bang Chan (), is an Australian singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer based in South Korea. Signed to JYP Entertainment, he is the leader of the South Korean boy b ...

(born 1997), Australian singer and producer of Korean descent, member of boy band Stray Kids *

Kang Yu-chan Kang Yu-chan (; born December 31, 1997), formerly known as Chan () is a South Korean singer and actor. He debuted as a member of A.C.E in 2017. In the same year, he joined the survival program ''The Unit'', in which he finished in ninth place a ...

(born 1997), formerly known as Chan, Korean singer, member of boy band A.C.E

Computing and media

*chan-, an abbreviation for channels in

Internet Relay Chat IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for Many-to-many, group communication in discussion forums, called ''#Channels, channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via instant mess ...

(IRC) *chan, a common suffix for the title of an

imageboard An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension of the textboard concept. These sites later inspired the creation of ...

As an acronym/initialism

African Nations Championship The African Nations Championship, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship and commonly abbreviated as CHAN, is a biennial African association football tournament organized by the Confederation of Afri ...

or ''Championnat d'Afrique des Nations'' (CHAN), an African football tournament *

CHAN-DT CHAN-DT (channel 8), branded Global British Columbia or Global BC (formerly British Columbia Television or BCTV), is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the West Coast flagship of the Global Television Networ ...

, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada

Other uses

Chan (surname) Chan is a non-pinyin romanisation of multiple Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese. Among respondents to the 2000 United States census, Chan was the 12th-most common surname among Asian Pacific Americans, and 459th-most common ...

, romanization of various Chinese surnames *

Chan Buddhism Chan (; of ), from Sanskrit '' dhyāna'' (meaning " meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially popular during the Tang and Song ...

, a school of Mahayana Buddhism *

Chan (honorific) The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called , which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while ...

, a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment *Chan (), a form of

Thai poetry Poetry has been featured extensively in Thai literature, and constituted the near-exclusive majority of literary works up to the early Rattanakosin Kingdom, Rattanakosin period (early 19th century). Most of imaginative literary works in Thai, befor ...

* "Chans" (Kent song), a song by Swedish band Kent *Chan, the plant ''

Hyptis suaveolens ''Mesosphaerum suaveolens'', synonym ''Hyptis suaveolens'', chia, pignut, or chan, is a branching pseudocereal plant native to tropical regions of Mexico, Central, the West Indies, and South America, as well as being naturalized in tropical par ...

'', a relative of mint also known as "pignut"

Places

People

Computing and media

As an acronym/initialism

Other uses

See also